Our team members have an impressive track record of producing award-winning media.

Highlights

• Cannes Film Festival Multiple Award
  
  
• Grammy Award nominated music
  
  
• Emmy award winning TV programs
  
  
• Interactive Multimedia on exhibit on permanent exhibit
         at the Smithsonian Institute
  
  
• Ground breaking broadband Websites
  
  
• Prototypes for interactive TV for WGBH Boston and the
         Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  
  
• SPA Codie Award Winning Interactive Games
  
  
• Online courses featured as Best Educational Web site
         by the California Virtual Campus
  
  
• "Online Pioneer" award for founding online
         education program
  
  
• Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Non-Fiction
  
  
• Awards and Distinctions for Math Heads and Word Heads
  
  
• Film and Video Award
  
  
• Academy Award Documentary Film Nomination
• Emmy Award, Multiple Emmy Award Nominations
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival Multiple Awards including First Prize
• Ann Arbor Film Festival First Prize
• Berlin Film Festival
• Mannheim Film Festival First Critics' Prize
• Venice Film Festival
• First American Indian Intercontinental Film Festival Best Director Award
• Golden Apple Award
• North Carolina Smoky Mountain Film Festival Best Picture Prize
• Havana International Film and Video Festival First Prize
• Krakow Film Festival Best Director Prize
• 1st Prize PMN Video Competition, San Jose, 1987
• Honorable Mention, National Film and Video Festival
• Film Arts Institute, Award for Local Program Excellence
• 1st Prize PMN Video Competition
• 2nd Prize PMN Video Competition
• Mill Valley Film and Videofest

Writing and Journalism

• Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Non-Fiction
• George F. Polk Award for Journalism
• Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award
• Letelier-Moffit Award

Music and Sound Design

• Four Grammy Award Nominations
• Latin American Film and Video Festival, winner Coral Award, Best music video

Interactive Multimedia

• Best Educational Web site by he California Virtual Campus
• Online Pioneer Award
• Interactive Multimedia on exhibit on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC
• Prototypes for interactive TV for WGBH Boston and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• SPA Codie Award Winning Interactive Game
• Awards and Distinctions for Interactive CD-ROMs Math Heads and Word Heads.
  Math Heads builds pre-algebra skills through entertaining games. Valerie Landau was a designer for this landmark CD-ROM produced by Theatrix. Math Heads received very favorable reviews and awards:

Editors' Choice Award
- Newsweek

"The funkiest, greatest math program of the year!"
- NBC News "Today"

"The hippest program for kids 10 and up. MTV-style attitude..."
- Business Week

"Math Heads is hip, attention-grabbing and a fun way to learn math"
- MacHome Journal

Platinum Award
- Oppenheim Toy Portfolio

Top 100 CD-ROMs
- PC Magazine

Best Home Education for Adolescents
- SPA Codie Awards

Best New Consumer Software Program (Finalist)
- SPA Codie Awards

Seal of Quality
-
The Family Channel

iN!-Ovation Award
- indelibleNews!

"Engage your students and help them see math as something social and cool -- what more could you ask for?"
- Instructor Magazine

"Beneath the high-speed, high-volume presentation...some serious mental math skills are being taught."
- Technology and Learning

Word Heads is a wacky language-skills CD-ROM in the style of Math Heads and was designed by Valerie Landau.

­1998 Parents' Choice Gold Award Seal of Excellence

Clients and Projects

Landor and Associates interactive CD-ROM

Peachpit Press and Round World Media partnered to create interactive tutorial, “See It, Hear It, Do It, Flash 5!”

Britannica.com Round World Media developed hundreds of graphics and animations to illustrate Britannica.com Math Study Guides.

WGBH's Enhanced Arthur–a benchmark digital prototype–demonstrating the excitement and potential of what a digital television may look like in the future.

Round World Media Director, Valerie Landau, "was instrumental in the initial design phase of the project and conducted formative evaluation with groups of kids ages 5-10. Valerie is innovative in her approach to education, technology and television"
Annie Valva, Director, WGBH Interactive

Radio Commercials

• Bank of the West (2004) "Free Stuff", "Free Checking", "Free Pizza"
• McDonald's: "The Giving Meal", "Dipping Dots"

TV Commercials

• McDonald's "The Giving Meal", "Summer Rap"
• Maruchan's Ramen Noodles

Other Clients Include:

• LUCASFILMS
• Allied Domecq
• Beam Wine Estates
• Mattel
• Musician, Paul McCartney
• KQED-TV
• CBS, 60 MINUTES
• KTEH-TV
• The Learning Company
• HungryMinds.com
• PeopleSoft
• DeAnza College
• StarMedia